Category Archives: Thinking

Opportunities in India: Interview with Raoul Schoumaker

Raoul Schoumaker speaks at the Pune Design Festival

SonicRim founder and CEO Uday spoke with designer Raoul Schoumaker at the Pune Design Festival. In the interview below, Schoumaker discusses opportunities for design in India.

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Scoping the New Social Network: Emergent Themes in Online Communities

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Recently, I’ve found myself thinking about growth areas in social networking. Specifically, I’ve been captivated by networks that extend beyond the more germane social networking tasks of sharing content and status updates, to those that empower their users to extend their capacities, meet their needs, and achieve their aspirations.

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Designing for China’s State of Mind

photo credit: Ian A Holton

During my recent visit to China, along with the terrible quality of air, I also could not ignore the time wasted in traffic at any time of day in Beijing. But it was neither the number of cars nor the quality of the roads that cause congestion– in fact, most of the city’s roads are in better shape than those in the Bay Area. It’s the imprudent drivers who created the chaos.

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Sketches from the Whiteboard: January

People at the Whiteboard

Last week’s Whiteboard was a success. About 18 professionals joined us from a range of industries. With drinks in hand, 128 square feet of clean whiteboard space, and enough Expo pens to go around, everyone was ready to dive in.

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Insights from EPIC 2011

EPIC 2011

In 2011 SonicRim sponsored, helped organize, and presented at EPIC – the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference. Here’s an overview of what we learned from the experience.

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Feb
24

Join Us at the Whiteboard

We are now accepting RSVPs for the next Whiteboard @SonicRim on February 24th from 2:00-5:00 p.m. Please email chris@sonicrim.com if you are interested in joining us at our San Francisco office for a relaxed afternoon of drinks and creative conversation. To learn more about what Whiteboard is, read on! learn more »

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Jan
3

SonicRim in the News

SonicRim CEO Uday Dandavate was featured on “India Art n Design,” a design blog. You can read the article, titled “Design Research– A Relentless Quest,” here. learn more »

Dec
9

Whiteboard

Join us at 2:00 pm for SonicRim’s new initiative, “Whiteboard”. Every month we will host a Friday afternoon session for design researchers to share emerging patterns, ideas and aspirations in the field of design research.Cutting across organizational affiliations, this opportunity transcends the competitive nature of the design research marketplace to serve as a forum for... learn more »

Oct
1

Uday at TCDC International Symposium

  Uday Dandavate has been invited to speak at the Thailand Creative Design Center’s (TCDC) International Symposium. He will join eight other world-renowned thought leaders in discussing how innovation can change the world. learn more »

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